say I run straight down a hallway at a target while firing continuously. Also completely irrelevant to a discussion on keyboard control.1) The advantage here is that you can be moving in a different direction than the direction you are shooting. You can't have one finger cover A/D while the other finger covers W/S. What possible advantage is there to having your target NOT centered in your field of vision? You seem to have lost sight of the fact that, if you're shooting at something- you're looking at it. Switch between DRILL and PULSER software ? - abbreviated list of keyboard commands Note that 1-5 correspond to the cyberware icons along the left side of the HUD, and 6-0 to the ones along the right.ħ - Navigation and Mapping Unit (toggles compass) Since you must use the mouse, you only have one hand available for keyboard control this should render the arrow keys or keypad impossible to play with, but there's mouse equivalents for every keyboard command. Bear in mind that since I don't have the manual, I can't be sure that it's complete.but it's certainly complete enough to play with. Thus, in the interests of hopefully preventing more people from going insane, I've done some experimentation and written up this list. I know of at least one person who played the first four decks with nothing but the mouse and the arrow keys because they didn't know about any other controls!įurthermore, there doesn't seem to be anything like this in the FAQ, walkthrough, Guide to Sin, or anything else that I can find.

Preface: a lot of people don't seem to know the keyboard controls for Shock1 - it's not uncommon to run across shocklings (both here and elsewhere) who have no idea that you can strafe, or that SZXC can be used to move, or that your implants can be activated with the number keys.

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